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I just installed the new player. It is connected to my Vizio TV with the HDMI cable only. I have the audio out set up as HDMI Auto. The sound from some AVI files are not coming through. Sometimes they come through for a few minutes, and stop. I have not gone through all the manual possibilities. I will also try the audio cables too, but that is not a TRUE resolution if it works.

It might be a audio compatibility issue with the avi and I am not a good person to talk avi audio with. Are you encoding these avi's yourself and what audio settings are you using. Telling us your audio settings might get someones attention and we might get an answer.

having the same issue on my wd also, but to fix it i have noticed that if i am downloading alot at the time my network gets to much overload with everything going at once and i stop my downloads and recheck the audio and get everything back fine... please let me know if this is also a fix for you. it seems that there is too much traffic on your network to handle the transfer speeds of the wd and the other things all at once. Cheers please let me know if there is any merit to this theory

I am having similar issues to Bill B. I have my first WDTV and it worked fine connected via HDMI to the TV - audio set to Stereo.

I then decided to get a soundbar to improve on my old TV's speakers and ran optical from the WDTV to the Sound Bar (Samsung, HW-D350 which is capable of Dolby Digital and DTS).

For some files I don't get any audio at all. Some are ok. The bad ones are either AC-3 (6 channels) or DTS according to MediaInfo (which is very handy). Good ones have MPEG audio of some sort.

I tried connecting the sound bar to the TV's optical out instead of WDTV and then set WDTV to optical pass-thru via HDMI. All files then played but I think its just because my TV then forces it back down to stereo cos that's all it knows.

Really puzzled by this. It could be the sound bar but it plays Dolby Digital audio from optical outs on both a Sky+ HD box (showing a movie tagged as DD by Sky) and an FoxSat HDR on an HD channel (not sure how to tell if the channel's audio is DD but FoxSat set to output it over optical)

From what I understand AC-3 is Dolby Digital so I don't get why it won't play files with that audio type.